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Answer» Hi all I'm new here and was hoping someone could help me. I have a general idea on what is wrong but just NEED some additional guidance. I have been having probs with beeps at post too for the last few DAYS but my pc starts up and functions properly. I know there is a problem looming tho. This morning when I started my pc up there are no beeps at post which has me even more creeped out. I restarted several times just to make sure I wasn't crazy. There are no beeps at post. Last night I ran a virus scan and 1 virus was detected and removed on restart. Like I said I have had no problems with restarting my pc I'm actually using the pc to type this message but I know that something needs to be done about this as well. I have tried cleaning the inside of my computer (it was the 1st time the computer chassis has been opened). I have had no other problems with the system. So now according to intel's SITE I have something wrong with my system board and the beep codes I was getting at post prior to today was 1-3-4-1, which was something to do with the memory possible bad sector and such. I read something last night that suggested that I reseat the AGP cables? I can't REMEMBER or don't know what those are and saw something else about flashing the BIOS, which I'm not to keen on since I know it can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing and I have never done a flash BIOS before. Help me someone, please."o now according to intel's site I have something wrong with my system board and the beep codes I was getting at post prior to today was 1-3-4-1, which was something to do with the memory possible bad sector and such."
According to the quote above it could be defective system RAM or cache RAM. Does the Intel site go into any more detail?
Alan <>I doubt it is the issue here...Thank you for getting back to me so soon. No I don't want to do a BIOS flash and I don't think it will help matters either. Earlier today I cleaned the inside a bit better, I noticed there was some dust collection in the fan and cleaned that out. I also reseated all the cables inside going to and from the mobo. And as far as I can tell from the intel site it says that there is a possible problem in the 1st mb of memory, possible bad sector. The rest of the info is basically junk I don't need to know, and they don't manufacture this board anymore so therefore they have no support for this board. The board is a pentium (R) 4 3.06 Ghz board. After doing all this it once again has resumed the beep code 1-3-4-1. If anyone else has any furhter help they can offer it would be greatly appreciated.DLoad MemTest and use it to create a bootable floppy that will then test your RAM...let it run a few hours.
Any errors mean the RAM has gone bad and will need to be replaced.
QuoteDLoad MemTest and use it to create a bootable floppy that will then test your RAM...let it run a few hours.
Any errors mean the RAM has gone bad and will need to be replaced.
cool, thank you what version do I download and run though? I'm looking at the memtest.org website and see there are several different versions. I've never used this tool before but it is exactly what I am looking for as I'm still unclear if it is a memory or system board issue.http://www.memtest.org/download/1.70/memtest86+-1.70.floppy.zip
I use this one for a bootable floppy...ty I will try that and let you know what happened I just got to find a floppy and get some other things done first then figure out where to go from there. My hubby has been trying to get help from a FRIEND of his too and is saying we may have to replace the mobo in our pc...........i hope not Also, if you have more than one stick of RAM you can alternately take each one out, boot the computer and see which one is the problem.
Alan <>< Sorry I have been running memtest but thank you for your suggestion. I only have one stick of ram in this system so I can't check that way but it would be a good suggestion if I had more than 1 stick of ram in the system............so far no errors on the test but it is taking what seems like forever
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